After a billion downloads, Gismart is tuning its consumer-app machine for wellness. The clever part is not any single app - it is the system underneath them.
Chris Kaspar took a foster caseworker's warning and turned it into a $399 smartphone with no browser, no feed and no app store. Techless is betting that the most valuable feature a phone can have is the stuff it leaves out.
Most meditation apps ask you to sit still and shut up. Open wants you breathing, moving, and - strangest of all for the category - doing it with other people.